The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1871, Page 4

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ISTRELS, corner 38th LSY, £0, | New York, Mondav, ‘Jane 5, 1871 —- CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. \Pace. eae age / 1—Advertisements, 2—Adveriisements. ‘3—A Letter from Henn elescluze Apologizing for the Commune—The Board of Apportion- ment—West oint: The Hot Weather and the Season’s Prospects; West Point as It Was and as It Is—Court Calendars—Ad\ ertisements, Editorials: Leading Article, “The Late Revolu- tionary Movements of the Day, Political and Religious, and the Great Reaction'""—Amuse- Ment Annoucements, G—Editoriais (Continued from Fourth Page)— France: Executions Still Numerous; Diplo- matic Relations with Germany to be Re- sumed—Great Earthquake in China—News from the West Indte: » President at Long Branch—The Weath iscellaneons Teie- om tee News—Vie' f ihe Pasi—Basiness ollces. @—On the Congaree: What the Carolina H S ul sioner; An 22) of the Ku Kinx overnor of South 1D Comuis- neral’s Opinion a reat Tichborne Case: Full Text of te Will of Lady Henrietta F. Tichborne—Yachting Noies—Polygamy at West Point: Brignam Young Sends One of His pring to be a Cadet—Jealousy in Jersey—Southern Mail “ransit—Fatal Accident in Bridgeport, Conn. Y—Advertisements. S—Religious: Commemoration of the Mystery of 4 Services and Sermons; The Fate Furnishing Food for Flaming Ora- America Following tn the Footsteps of fortunate Empire—The Reign of Ringo- s (Continued from Eighth Page)— The Approaching Auniversary—Finan- cial and Commercial Reports—The Front Plat- form Again—Murderous uits in Williams- burg—Marriages and De: 10—News trom Washington. The Trinity Church Pr Inteltigence— A Fighting Po- liceman—Local ltems—Suipping Intelligeuce— Advertisements. Paris and Versailles. M. Grousset, one of the Commune leaders, was arrested in Paris yesterday. Felix Pyat Is still at liberty. It is believed that he is voncealed somewhere in the cily, and the search for him is very close. There is little probability of his escape. Executionsare still mumerous at Versailles of those who served in he army of theCommune. Though the num- en arrested for complicity in the rebellion has {been very great it is estimated that there are ‘over fifty thousand Communists still at large. "The police are afraid of them. It is true the mumber is formidable, but what could fifty thousand men do in Paris now, with ‘Marshal MacMahon and his army within athe city? M. Girardin again calls, through the columns of La Liberté, for the establishment of a liberal republic after the model of this country or Switzerland. This is @ pethobby of the celebrated journalist, and jhe is not slow in making it known to the world. The question is, will he ever realize hhisdream? Is the motion which has been made in the Assembly to prolong M. Thiers’ power for two years a step in that direction, and is the movement to be taken as an indica- tion that through a republican form of govern- ment in France the nation is to be restored to ahe position among European nations which she once occupied? Time alone can solve this problem. The Paris press in have taken up the Orleans princes, but this time not in connection with the monarchy, but in appeal- ing to their patriotism to resign their seats in the Assembly. Roe! Henri Rochefort, the notorious editor of many Parisian jomrnals, and whose pen and voice were used for the benefit of the Com- mune in its days of power, is now a prisoner in Versailles. Rochefort, unlike Gustave Flourens, Delescluze and many others whose ‘names we might cite, chose to fight his, battles ‘with the pen rather than the sword. Yet Rochefort was not a cow: When brought to Versailles lately as a prisoner the crowds who assembled in the streets hailed him with shouts of ‘1A bas Vassassin; a pied le brigand; a mort!” Tt was in this way that M. Roche- fort was received by a Versailles populace. Were it not for the vigilance of the troops who guarded him on his way to prison he would have been lyached—a mode of execution not unknown in some paris of America. How people change! One year ago, in the streets of the town through which Rochefort was so | Fecently conducted as a prisouer and in which be was bailed asa brigand aod an assassin, jhad the fiery editor been led as a captive, he would, in all probability, have been regarded asa martyr, Whatever punishment may be dealt out to Rochefort, no matter how severe, he will deserve it. He has alwaye been a dis- turber of the peace, and as such should suffer, Tne New Bovievarp Drive.—Why is the ‘work on this magnificent avenne delayed? It ought to have been completed long ago and our citizens enjoying the present summer one of the most delightful drives in the world, We believe the Department of Public Parks has charge of the matter. Viog Presipext Corrax “arrived at his Dome in South Bend, Ind., on Saturday morn- fing, somewhat improved in health, notwith- jeorncy long and fatiguing journey from NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Late LKevolutionary Mevemeuts of the Day, Political and Keligious, and the Great Reaction. It was the famous Bishop Berkeley, we think, who said that “the battle of Waterloo put back the clock of progress half a century.” He referred to the restoration of the Bourbons and the “divine rights” of kings, The diabo- lisms of the Paris Commune, looking at the radical revolutionary movements of the age, have at this day probably put back the clock of socialistic ideas and progress on both hemi- spheres for at least a generation to come. Our venerable Archbishop McCloskey, however, ina recent conversation with a representative of the HEratp, speaking of the “reds” and the King of Italy, said:—‘‘Yes. Before three years, perhaps before the end of one year, Victor Emmanuel will be chased from his throne by the very party who now cajole him with a leadership which he does not exercise. He is their puppet, and when it suits them he will be deposed. Then will come the great struggle, to end in their overthrow.” The learned Archbishop may be correct in this opinion; but in our judgment the hideous developments and the bloody overthrow of the Paris Commune have settled the question, at least for the red fraternity in Italy, and for all their European affiliations, for the present generation. When the news of the crushing catastrophe to Napoleon at Sedan was officially proclaimed in Paris, and the imperial majority in the National Legislature, and the imperial Cabinet and the Empress filed for their lives from Paris and from France, and when the republic was proclaimed from the Hotel de Ville, there was an instantaneous and a great change in the public sentiment of the United States in favor of France. When our Minister at Paris, Mr. Washburne, announced to President Grant that the republic had been re- stored in France, and in the midst of the strong- est popular excitements, without bloodshed, and that there were good reasons for believing that without crime it would be a great success, and when the President instructed our Min- ister without delay to recogniz2 the republic, and when the recognition was accordingly proclaimed, the American people had great faith in the good fruits promised by Jules Favre. The impression next was widely entertained on this side the water that Spain and Italy, and even the States of Germany, would next fall into line from an overwhelming popular uprising in favor of republican insti- tutions, and that so fhe new French republic would come out of its war with Germany with & greater success and a stronger prestige than the republic of 1793, in being founded on bet- ter and more enduring principles. Such were the great expectations here en- tertained from the French republic proclaimed on the 5th of September last; but before the end of the month all such high hopes were dis- pelled by the continued successes of the Ger- man armies, by the mysterious feebleness of General Trochu and his defensive armed forces of Paris of four hundred thousand men, and by the fantastic tricks of the leading French revolutionary mountebank, Gambetta. We next see from the German armistice and the election of the French National Assembly that the French people, disgusted with the fantastical republic of Gambetta and mortified with the appalling defeats of the imperial armies, elect an Assembly in favor of the Bourbons, The Assembly next chooses the conservative M. Thiers as head of the State, and next, in the removal of the Assembly from Bordeaux to Versailles instead of Paris, we have a warning that the Paris “reds,” who were so swift to depose the empire, are not satisfied with M. Thiers or his Assembly, and that presently we shall see, in blood and fire, the red spectre of the real republic aimed at all this time by the Paris Commune. It comes, Paris, France and all the world see this red spectre of the Commune, this bloody anarchy of the republic, universal and social, and Paris, France and the world recoil from the horrid spectacle. Here, then, reconciled to and ready for the Bourbons or the Bonapartes, as against the frightful anarchy of the republic, universal and social, stands France to-day. No doubt that profound statesman, Prince Bis- marck, in this business has found his policy. of non-intervention in French internal affairs worth more in the developments from this Paris Commune to the cause of the German empire and of kingly authority in Europe tban hundreds of millions of money in the shape of indemnities. We think, too, this Paris Commune, with its shocking excesses, bas not only secured the general desire of the French people fora return to a strong government, | republic, empire or kingdom, but has secured | the King of Italy against the Italian reds, | and will secure to the Pope of Rome better terms inthe settlement of his temporalities than he could otherwise have hoped to gain. The radical revolutionary movements in Europe, then, resulting from Napoleon's dis- astrous declaration of war against Prussia and her German allies, have been set back by | the terrors of the Paris Commune; and in this matter the triumph of Bismarck as the representative of the established order of things over the revolutionary propaganda of | France is greater than Von Moltke’s triumphs over the armies of Napoleon and the republic combined. But this reaction against the French repub- is not limited to France, Germany and taly. The alarm in England resulting from the downfall of Napoleon precipitated the peaceable adjustment of the Black Sea ques- | tion; and the alarm in Spain burried up the election and establishment as her King of Amadeus of Italy, Nor is this all; for this reaction, through England, has extended to the United States. With the overthrow of Napoleon England fully comprehended the weight of the great fact that she had lost her only reliable ally in the world, With Napo- leon at her back, in the plenitude of his power, England scouted our Alabama claims; with Napoleon overthrown, and with the appearances on every side of an impending republican convulsion, Mr, Gladstone began to realize the necessity of an entente cordiale with the United States. It had become neces- sary as & balance of power, and expedient, looking to the Fenians, Hence this Joint High Commission and the Treaty of Wash- ington, General Grant, on our side of this question, in the next place. disclosed the important fact in that most interesting conversation the other day at Long Branch with a Heratp commis- sioner, that this treaty of peace had become a great object with him, in view of the danger of another uprising of our late Southern con- federacy in the event of a war with England. So important do we regard General Grant’s emphatic remarks upon this subject that we here reproduce them:—‘‘There were,” said he, “thousands of influential people in the South treacherous and treasonable, who hugged the thought that the cause of secession would tri- umph whenever the country got involved ina war with England. I told Senators of this matter, and urged them to act upon fue treaty with Eagland at once.” Is this a small matter in this great reaction against these dis- turbing and alarming revolutionary forces in both hemispheres? No, but itis a very im- portant maiter. The great French revolution of 1789, turn- ing the nations upside down and inside out, convulsed all Europe for a quarter of a cen- tury. Butin the end the Holy Alliance was too strong for it, and restored, with some modifications, the old order of things. Then followed a general peace till 1848-9, from another French revolution, precipitated in Paris, that hot-bed of revelutions, and then all Europe was thrown into a revolutionary com- motion, in which the Pope was upset and ex- pelled and a republic was established in Rome, and in which the House of Hapsburg was rescued from Kossuth only by a Russian relieving army of 180,000 men. Then, with Louis Napoleon at the head of the French government, the empire was to France peace, and, in a general sense, peace to Europe, and Napoleon was the arbiter of the Continent until 1870, when he spoiled everything in his imperious arbitration about a king for Spain. Had the revolutionary movements developed trom this folly of Napoleon gone forward suc- cessfully there would have been before the ending the republic universal and social in France, in Spain and in Italy, chaos in Bel- gium and Germany, England, Ireland and the New Dominion, and from all these complica- tions a war between the United States and England, according to General Grant, and another call upon the armies of the Union to fight another Southern rebellion. There has been, then, and there is, a great reaction in both hemispheres in favor of the established order of things in Church, State and society. But what next? We cannot tell. We only know that these mighty mate- rial and moral forces of modern civilization, the steam engine, the press, the railway and the telegraph, with all their powers of repres- sion, are still constantly exciting in every civilized State new revolutionary movements as old ones are put down. We only know that no sluggish or luxurious peace, as in the old times, will hereafter be allowed the powers that be in Church, State or society; and we can only say that, looking back at the tre- mendous events among the nations of the last ten years, it will be consistent with the pro- pelling moral forces of steam and lightning if within the next ten years we have to record a succession of changes and transformations, po- litical, religious and social, in the Old World and the New still more amazing and stilla little nearer the Millennium. Are the United States and Russia Friends or Nott—Wio Says Not Russia has ever been our friend. We are at times apt to forzet that. When all the world was morally arrayed against us, when England and France cast defiance in our teeth, when the very people in our midst were dubious or rejoicing at our calamities, Russia, of all the Powers of Europe—Russia alone cheered us with generous sympathy. Some people are given to despise what is generally called “moral support.” We are not of those. Moral support seems a very intangible thing, and yet toa nation, amid her trials, it is some- thing to have the comfort of encourage- ment and of good wishes when tread- ing the thorny path of disaster; chiefly so when that encouragement happens to come from one of the greatest Powers in the world. What killed the Paris Commune? The strategy of MacMahon and the numerical superiority or better organiza- tion of the Versaillists? Notaltogether. These did much toward attaining the end, but want of moral support did more. The Commune had no rallying point of sympathy without. Wherever Paris turned her agonized look she met with nothing but dreary coldness. No sympathy from any foreign nation or recog- nized organization. Nothing but one solitary demonstration of the London mob, and very poor at that. The case of the Great Western republic in her troubles and that of the death- doomed Commune are not exactly alike, still they are near enough to invite comparison, This is the reason why we should not forget what we owe Russia, the Emperor Alexander and his righthand man, Prince Gorichakoff (glorious old man, he!). Now we owed old England a gradge. History and but very re- cent events taught us so. But we have done with our gradge against England. Joint High Commission has heaied all soreness between England and America, England is our friend now, So is Russia, and therefore those who say that our reconciliation with Eng- land has been the signal for coldness or per- haps hostility between the United States and Russia are wide of the mark. What is the use of flashing forth lying telegrams to the world, saying that because Gentleman Fish had not invited Diplomatist Catacazy to an official feed Diplomatist Catecazy had flung a casus belli into Gentleman Fish’s face. Do you know, friend, what a casus belli means at full length? It means rivers of blood and tears, Therefore we'll have no casus belli, But what says Minister Catacazy ?—sly, facetious man he, and fond of his joke, too! Said he to our representative, ‘‘Oasus belli / Casus belly, soy I. I have missed a good dinner by being away from Washington. Now, my dear friend,” adding to our repre- sentative, ‘I credit you with sonse enough to know, to see, to comprehend that I couldn't be at Fish’s dinner and rusticating on Long Island, as you see I am, both at the same time, Fish and J are the best friends in the world. Russia and the United States love one another, Alexander Il.—God bless him!—and President Grant—may he be President again !—would be shaking hands now but for the intervening space between them. Be not alarmed, Russia koows better than to fall out with the United States, and tho United States have too much sense of gratitude to fall out with Russia.” Therefore, say we, a truce to these rumors of dissensions between the United States and Russia. The Scrmons—Holding God Responsible for Horrors, Yesterday was so warm that the churches were anything but full, Nature, which Mr. Beecher is so fond of praising, and which Mr. Frothingham’s mind is so full of that it can- not spare a little room for a thought of Chris- tianity—nature, as seen at the several sum- mer resorts within easy distance of the city, found numerous worshippers, who tbronged the excursion boats. The time, however, has not yet arrived when we shall announce, in mournful language, that ‘“‘nobody is in town,” meaning thereby that George Washington Jones and Napoleon Lafayette Smith and their families had gone to Saratoga or Long Branch, followed by their devoted pastor. Asa con- sequence the churches were not altogether empty yesterday. Fashion was weil repre- sented at all of them; sinners, well dressed and ill-dressed, prayed and perspired; rev- erends and priests preached and perspired. If, in fact, the fervor of the congregations was as intense asthe heat, we should entertain no fears lest Dr. Ewer's predictions be real- ized. That clergyman in his lecture yester- day took a most gloomy view of the civil and religious aspect of affairs. He pointed to Paris as an evidence of Divine retribution. Unfortunate Paris is now pointing a moral in every sermon in Christendom. Not long ago we took occasion to condemn this absurd prac- tice of imputing to God every calamity which befals humanity. Is there a railroad slaughter, Providence is held responsible; is there a coal mine horror, God is charged with it; isa city burned down and half its inhabitants de- stroyed, the entire Trinity, the twelve Apos- tles and all the saints are charged with the diabolical deed. We protest against this, be- cause it is not Christian doctrine. Protestant and Catholic preachers are slike attributing the misfortunes of Paris to Divine wrath. If this be so, it must be admitted that He selected as instruments a frightful set of wretches. But will these expounders of the doctrine of Divine interposition in all the calamities of life explain how Paris was punished for her sins by the murder of the pious and venera- ble Archbishop Darboy and numerous priests and nuns? Is it possible that in a city of two millions of inhabitants there were not ten righteous men, the number which, according to the Scriptures, wero enough to save it? Our preachers appear to forget that if we must recognize the hand of God in great misfortunes we must recognize it in small ones also. This 13 a logical conclu- sion, If the Communists were agents of the Almighty in half destroying Paris then Foster was a divine agent in killing Putnam, and so on down to the most trivial of crimes. And the moment we believe any such doctrine that moment we destroy all belief in individual responsibility and make man the slave of a supernatural power for good or for evil. This is not the doctrine of Christ; it is sheer phan- tasy. The most we can say, with any degree of reason, is that God abandoned Paris to her fate because of her wickedness, and we must find an explanation of {lis abandonment of the Archbishop and other good men to their fates in the declaration that He works in mysterious ways. Dr. Ewer was of opinion that we have fallen into the power of rings, and he feared that the country was going to the bow-wows with great rapidity. Really, the picture drawn by the Docior of our religious, social and political condition is tod gloomy for contem- plation in this hot weather ; so we turn from it to the discourse of Archbishop McCloskey on the trials and afflictions of the Holy Father—a vigorous, interesting sermon—to which we refer the reader. It was the inten- tion of the Archbishop to speak on the sublime mystery of the Trinity (yester- day being Trinity Sunday), but the excessive heat induced him to postpone the delivery of his sermon on that subject. We commend this consideration for his congrega- tion to all preachers, Mr. Frothingham’s dis- course was noteworthy for its apology for the Paris Communists and its plea for greater leniency toward atheists. Dr. Armitage ex- plained that love alone induced Christ to dwell with men. Dr. Dix spoke on the necessity of men laying down their crowns, whether of sor- row or joy, before the throne of the Almighty. Rev. Mr. Smyth preached on the subject of ‘The Tabernacle of God with Men;” Mr. Beecher, in his usual figurative language, showed that the present is not all of life—that the best of life is that of the hereafter. ‘There were other sermons to which we have not specially referred, but which will be found reported elsewhere, of interest to all, In Brooklyn, Washington and elsewhere the religious harvest was promising, if not alto- gether satisfactory. It certainly was about as satisfactory as it generally is with the thermometer at ninety-four. A Weak Dele M. Henri Delescluze, in a letter which we publish in this morning’s Heratp, attempts— and, in truth, we confess in a very able manner from his standpoint—to defend the recent doings of the Commune of Paris, Ac- cording to the writer the only honor, if honor it be, attaching to the whole transaction is due to the Paris leaders, not to the German radicals or any other class of men, It is not at all likely that the radicals whom M. Deles- cluze speaks of will attempt to glorify them- selves or seek to rob the patriots of Paris of their share of the glory of the burning of Paria or the massacres which were perpe- trated there in the name of liberty and freedom. That there was some ground for opposition to the Bordeaux and Versailles governments, in some respects, we admit ; but that that opposition should attempt to gain its point by fire and sword we most em- phatically frowo down. It.was not only Paris, but all France, that the Commune sought to bring under its rule, According to the radi- cal ideas of the men who were foremost in the red rebellion, which has caused blood to flow so freely through the streets of the capital and razed many a proud edifice to the ground, Paris and the large cities were to dominate France and teach the nation what liborty is. If the capital could have done this without citios, auxh a8 Lyons. Bordeaux, Marseilles, mee of the Commune. Amiens, Havre, &c., it would never have called upon them even for aid, as it would have dictated to them, in case of success, the course they should pursue, That this was the aim is evident in many ways. So far as the agricultural districts were concerned Paris knew nothing of thom, and, what is more, did not care to know. Yet this movement in Paris was cherished by many who call and believe themselves republicans. The events of the last ten days, even, will not convince them that the rising of the Paris reds was one of the most wicked, bloody and murderous conceptions of the age. Is there anything to justify the massacres which have been perpetrated under the Commune? M. Delescluze says that the murders of Generals Lecomte and’ Thomas ‘‘were acts of fury committed by their soldiers.” Surely if those who wielded power in Paris at the time of the committal of these murders were unable to restrain those under their command it is a pretty good argument that they were unfit for the positions they aspired to and did occupy. Had the Communists, or radicals, or liberals, if you will, fought their antagonists in the Assembly Chambers with their voices, or at the ballot boxes with their votes, we could admire and respect their op- position; but when they resorted to the murder of innocent priests and nuns, the pillage of religious establishments, wholesale massacres, and, finally, the attempt to destroy the whole city, their acts call forth the con- demnation of every honest man and brand the insurgents of Paris as the common enemies of mankind. There were principles in the plat- form of the Commune which we approved of, and in which we wished the leaders success in endeavoring to secure, until they brought murder, robbery and incendiarism into play. Then we raised our voice, as we do now, against any attempt which will aim at plunging a country into misery by any course conducted in bloodshed and incendiarism, Democratic Slips Between the Cup and the Lip. The Pennsylvania democracy have entered the field for the fall campaign with drums beat- ing and colors flying. They are led by a gallant soldier, who has as his right bower one of the best fighting men of the late war. The Keystone democracy have taken no step backward in the march of political events, but rather a step forward, inasmuch as they not only accept the constitutional amend- ments, but aver that the discussion of those amendments is unnecessary and should be avoided. Following the lead of the Pennsyl- vania democracy appear the sweeping legions of the democracy of Ohio, who, without dilly- dallying a moment, start off in their platform with the pregnant declaration that the three constitutional amendments are no longer issues before the country. Imitating the Pennsyl- vania democracy in another respect, the Buckeyes have selected as their standard- bearer one of the most popular soldiers of the late rebellion. With steady arms and heads erect, therefore, the democratic hosts of two of the greatest States enter into a lively skirmish preliminary to the grand Presidential field fight next year. Con- ceding New York to the democracy, there is no reasonable chance for the republicans to succeed in 1872, unless—and here comes the difficulty. With the laurels of victory almost within their grasp the national democracy are clogged and hindered and demoralized by the frenzied howlings of some exasperated Southerner like Jeff Davis, who, now that he is engaged in the life insurance business, would, no doubt, if he could reap a percentage thereby, plunge the country into another deadly conflict, When one witnesses the struggles of the national democracy for the reattainment of federal power, sees them going along so swimmingly, with the tide of popularity in their favor, with good and sound men at the helm, with such a noble chieftain as General Sherman ready to lead their serried battalions to triumph— when those things appear prominently before the world, we say it is really painful to see this glittering prospect of success dashed to pieces by the conduct of men whose innate sense of decorum and decency should deter them from parading their soured and bilious views before the public. Brilliant as was the prospect before them, with so glorious a send- offas the platforms and the candidates of the Pennsylvania and Ohio democracies, a vam- pire interposes his greedy presence between the national democracy and national success, the republican waverers are frightened back into their former household, and a wet blanket is thrown upon democratic enthusiasm every- where. It will take many ‘‘new departures” of the democracy to overcome the stigma which a conceited vaporer like Jeff Davis can cast upon the party whenever he chooses to open his mouth and wag his tongue on the subject of national politics, There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and the demo- cracy will find that this is one of them, Great Earthquake in China. Minister Low furnishes the State Depart - ment at Washington with a brief account of a series of earthquakes which prevailed for several days at Bathang, in the province of Sezhuen, China. About the Ist of April there was a sudden and unaccountable rise of waters in the district of Bathang, which con- tinued until the 11th, when the country for nearly four hundred miles around was con- vulsed by earthquakes. The shocks were very severe, and continued, with intermissions, for ten days, when they became less frequent, and finally ceased. The scenes which ensued were horrible beyond description. During this time the earth rocked and reeled like a ship at sea in a violent storm. Wight temples were thrown down, 2,421 dwell- ings were destroyed and 2,298 persons crushed by the falling walls, To add to these accumulated horrors flames broke out among the ruins in Bathang and raged with uncon- trollable fury during five days, consuming everything within their reach, and destroying the lives of hundreds who were lying wounded and helpless among the ruins of their homes, Steep hills sunk out of sight, and in their places naught is seen but yawning gulfs, while in other places the earth upheaved leav- ing hills many feet in height, Many singular phenomena attended this earthquake, the full particulars of which will be anxiously watched for, Dix=—Vinton—Haight. The Rev. Dr, Dix, rector of Trinity parish, is too well known in this community to need’ any elaborate introduction to our readers at this time, He is a stanch Episcopalian of the “High Church” school, and is, perhaps, in- clined to carry the extrayagances of that form of ritualistic Protestantism to its utmost limits. He isa warm advocate of the con- fessional, and in a work published by him a couple of years ago he gave specific and de- tailed instructions for the carrying out of this feature in the several churches in his parish and by the rectors of the same. The book created quite a stir in the Episcopal fold, and drew forth a great deal of comment, favorable and unfavorable, from the press, both secular and religious; but it was not favorably received by the rectors generally, As a preacher, from his pro- Catholic standpoint he is as logical as @ “Protestant” minister can consistently be when teaching such doctrines, But when, laying these aside, he proclaims the truth ‘‘as it is in Jesus,” and not as it is in missala or rubrics, he is earnest and practical. He is an excellent administrator of the trusts of the parish, and under his pastoral care several new churches and missions have been added to the parish, and hundreds of the neglected poor have thus been gathered into the fold of Christ. Dr. Dix is a laborious rector, and! is highly esteemed among every class of his parishioners and by not a few of the clergy. There are some of the latter, however, who cannot forgive him for his advances toward Romanism, x Tho Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., is the rector of Trinity church, where he invariably officiates. He is proud of his church and of his parish. Both have a history full of in- spiration, of patriotism and goodness, and the church stands almost alone—a beacon to guide the travellers in the lower part of the city toward the better land. It is the largest Pro- testant Episcopal church in the city, and, we believe, on the Continent. It stands where it stood, and as it stood, before the American colonies became a nation, save that it has been greatly enlarged and beautified. It is open every day in the week for prayers and for visitors, and it is very well worth a ride tosee its interior. The vestry have had in contemplation at various times to enlarge the church still further to cathedral proportions, butas the General Convention have failed yet to approve the plan of provincial synods pre- sented here a few years ago, und which would make way for the establishment of one or more archbishoprics in the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country, the improvements have not yet been made. It is possible, however, that within a few years the ‘‘Ameri- can Church,” as High Churchmen are pleased to call it, will have a system of government and officers corresponding as nearly as may be to the Establishment of Great Britain. But the prospective fate of that Establishment should warn American churchmen not to imi- tate it too hastily. Dr. Vinton shares largely in the prophetic growth of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, and takes an active though limited part in extending its sphere of usefulness here. The Doctor is earnest and at times eloquent in the pulpit, and pos- sesses a fine, full, clear voice, which can be distindtly and easily heard throughout the large edifice. The Rev. Benjamin I. Haight, D. D., rector of St. Paul’s church, isa man of mark anda leader in the councils of his Church. He is full of fire and aval in the service of his par- ticular and the general Church, He is one of the best read men in ecclesiastical history and: in the literature of the American Church to be found on the Continent. He is a great admirer of the inimitable liturgy of his Church, and advocates its study by Church members gen- erally, but he has little or no sympathy with either High or Low Church extremists. He believes the Protestant Episcopal Church in America has a grand mission before it, and he is one of the most earnest champions for mis- sionary Church extension that it possesses. In every good word and work by which the interests of the Church here are to be advanced he is foremost in its ranks, and the advice and counsel of his well-balanced mind and under- standing are sought with eagerness by hia brethren in the Church and ministry, and three years ago he lacked but a few votes to be elected to the episcopal office. The Doctor is a man admired and beloved by all who know him, The Departure—Je? Davis=Horace Greeley—(eneral Sherman=The Southern Press. The ‘‘new departure” is bringing the Southe ern fire-eating press ont in a strong light. The following is from the Mobile Register of the 30th ult.:— The Register is quite too experlenced and pracit. cal to waste regrets over what appears to it to be tha degeneracy of this style (tue Joan Quincy Adams style) of making and Nghting political issues. We are but one of the great democratic army, We have our views as to how it should meet the common enemy, and we have put them on record. Whether these views of policy are concurred in or not we train under the banner all the samo; and, when- ever the plan of battle 1s arranged, we shall harbor but one thought—to wit: “Let us march against Philip.” It is at least some comfort to Know that the line of battle likely to be adopted by the democracy is exceedingly distasteful to the Jacobin leaders. The Richmond Hnguirer says, “Mr. Jeffer= son Davis exhausts our patience,” and con- tinues, in marked language: ‘the Southern people do not intead to follow Mr. Davis. Tbey have not got the slightest idea of it. Mr. Davis is at perfect liberty to ‘accept noth ing,’ to refuse ‘to abide the issue of the war,” to announce that ‘ihe South is only waiting,” &e. We,on the other hand, do accept tha situation and consider the war ended. We have been utterly overwhelmed and there is nothing else for us to do.” That is a sensible view to take of the subject. We are fast approaching the dog days, Will no one muzzle Jeff Davis? General John B. Gordon, an ex-Confederate General of much merit and great personal popa- larity, delivered an address in Columbia, Ga., on the 24th ult., in the course of which, according to a report in the Columbia Herald, he paid a high compliment to the soldiers of the federal army, who fought the contest from the honest conviction of patriotism, and waa “withering in his denunciation of the miser- able; political harpies that skulked from the danger of battle when war was raging and now arouse and stir up the bad passions of the people for the basest of political pure ” New The Savannah Republican “sneaks ita